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I did a little sewing over the weekend. I have a project that I was asked to make. Here is the color palate; all Moda Bella Solids.

One of the parts of nearly 500 inches of ruffled fabric; 500 inches of three different colors of the fabric.

It wouldn’t have been possible without these two feet, My rolled hem foot and my new ruffler foot. It has made short work this job.

Before I could get to some sewing, however, I had to clean my desk off that was piled with a lot of stuff that has accumulated over the several months that I haven’t sewn.

I belong to the Fat Quarter Shop’s mini charm pack club of the month. Where you get 4 different mini charm packs a month. Many of these were in the mailer and unopened.

A side view:

And here they are all laid out showing the different linesSince it was Easter weekend, I did some baking. Here are the cupcakes I took to class Friday night. Funfetti with homemade vanilla and chocolate buttercream frosting. The eggs on top are Hershey’s candy coated chocolate.

And here is the cake I made for Easter dinner: Vanilla cake with raspberry butter cream and chocolate butter cream accents with the Hershey eggs for decorations. The cake plate is a Fiesta cake plate that I got from my inlaws for graduation.

On Sunday, we went to the beach. We had planned to go on Christmas Day, but the weather wasn’t that great. The weather was only slightly better on Sunday, but at least it didn’t rain while we were at the beach. It rained all the way to the beach – so much so that we kept debating turning around but decided to see what it looked like at the beach before we made a final decision. It was overcast, but still nice.

Here are a few photos from that day. We went to Bellows AFS – our favorite beach. When we got there there was only on one other group on the military section of the beach. It picked up a bit later as it brightened up and closer to lunch, but by then we were ready to leave.

We started the designated two hour interval of trick-or-treating with a HUGE cauldron of candy (3 huge mix bags from Costco – 150 pieces each).

We then sent two of our own monsters out into the neighborhood (with friends’ families).

One was an old guy waiting on the tsunami to get here (if you didn’t know we had a tsunami warning on Saturday night that didn’t amount to much)

He is wearing my aerobics belt, some arm floats’ (really my leg “weights for aerobics) and has a pool noodle.

We also had Slenderman’s wife:

We decided that Slenderman’s wife neeeded to be pretty and have pink hair. She used her brother’s cape from last year’s bloody skeleton costume (I cut the length of it so she wouldn’t be tripping all the time) and one of her brother’s black t-shirts on backwards to hide the graphics.

The only thing we spent on costumes was the makeup.

An hour and 45 minutes later, we get back our monsters with their own candy and our candy is gone… not sure that was a fair trade….

Saturday, I had an adventure. It was my monthly sewing bee of the Sassy S&B Quilters. I normally hold it on Saturdays at a community center provided by the management company of the housing I live in. Since it is on Saturday, I have to pick up the keys to the room on the Friday before. I forgot to do it, despite the many comments to friends “I can’t wait to go sew tomorrow”. This is only the second time in four years that I forgot to pickup the key the day before the bee. Needless to say, I was kicking myself. The last time I forgot the key, it was the night before after they closed and I had time to call everyone and cancel. I didn’t even remember this time until I was pulling up to the room to unload my car. There was a couple of people already waiting. I called around and finally was able to leave a message for the manager. We waited for an hour and with no phone call back, I decided to pick up and move to my house. Luckily, I had cleaned a few days before, so it wasn’t too bad (otherwise I wouldn’t have even offered to have people come back to my house). Some declined, and that was fine, we have about 15 –25 people show up every month to the bees (hence the reason to hold it at the community center!). We caravan to my house, which isn’t very far away, and unload our stuff. I unload my car so we could have extra tables (usually three tables, an ironing board, an office chair, and then my machine and projects). During this, my friend Maureen showed up and noticed that someone was opening the pool that was behind the room, and asked if he had keys to the room. He stated no and I think asked if he wanted her to call someone. She did and thirty minutes later the office manager called me and asked if I was able to get into the room. This is about 30 minutes after we left to go to my house. She was super nice and said she (or someone else) would meet me at the office to let me get the key). We all pack up again (only Kristin the superwoman was sewing already) and head back to the community center. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful – just a nice day with friends!

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For mother’s day, my children told me to stay in bed, to not get up. I pretty much assumed they wanted to make me breakfast in bed. All week long I was getting questions like “so when you make bagels in the toaster, you push the bagel button, right?” and “do you like ketchup with your hash browns” and “how do you like your eggs?”. I was a little scared because my son (12) is just beginning to cook and while that is fine, my husband is on deployment right now, so no adult supervision downstairs while he cooked.

They came upstairs with this:

A bagel with cream cheese, and scrambled eggs. Yes, no hash browns, because I told them I couldn’t have them. The eggs were a little undercooked, but I really wasn’t that hungry that early so that was fine. It was a great attempt for his first time making scrambled eggs! I am proud of my kiddos!

I hope everyone had a nice Easter. My family didn’t do much. The Easter Bunny visited with baskets for the kids and I of course I forgot to take photos. We went to see a movie and then out to dinner. A low-key day for the most part after a busy weekend.